You’ve heard stories about fishermen finding long-lost rings. But this story will probably top all the others because it’s about a class ring that’s been lost for 60 years—on another continent.

The ring was found. Found by a German family near where the owner lost it during World War II—in the Huertgen Forest on the Belgian-German border in November, 1944.

The ring belonged to William Anderson, Sr., who was a member of the Wofford College class of 1934. The ring was returned to the elder Anderson’s son, William, Jr., according to a report from The Times of Munster, Indiana.

As the story is told, the elder Anderson lost his class ring while diving into a foxhole at the beginning of an artillery barrage. His ring finger got snagged on a tree branch that pulled the ring off. After the smoke cleared Anderson was unable to find his class ring.

Five decades later somebody did find the Wofford ring. A German farmer found it in a plowed field in the early 1950s and put it in a box on his dresser. There the ring remained for over 50 years until the farmer’s grandson, Michael Schumaker, discovered the ring among his late grandfather’s possessions.

After an exhaustive search, Schumaker found the ring owner’s son living in Lakes of the Four Seasons, a small community near Gary, Indiana. The elder Anderson had died earlier, at the age of 90.

What happens to the ring now? Anderson told The Times newspaper in Munster he wants to turn the class ring over to Wofford College that his father loved so much. "I want to make a presentation box that includes the ring, the story of the ring, and photographs of the Schumakers (in Germany) and my father," Anderson told a reporter. "I want to include the flag that was draped over my father’s coffin. I think he would want it shared, especially with Wofford College."